Saturday, November 7, 2009

December 1, here we come!

Wahoo! LIFE programs start December 1 so we are ramping up to go! Raffle tickets are on sale online... the discounts and perks and prizes are amazing!

Heidi has a new website www.maeworld.org which is awesome.

Let's keep a good thing rollin!

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Raffle Tickets are now available ONLINE!

Hey urban arts family and friends. Our raffle has officially begun!!! Besides winning amazing prizes www.headsuplancaster.org/win.html you can now use your ticket for AMAZING DISCOUNTS!

5% off local coffee shops EVERY TIME you show your stub till new years.
buy 1, get 1 free at the New Holland Ave dominos... yep... every time!
plus lots more...

It's only $10 for a ticket for your support to heads up and a chance to win great prizes!

Visit our site, fan us on facebook and support heads up's efforts to release vision among our youth!

Heidi also has a sweet webpage too so you can keep up with Kids Capoeira.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Raffle to begin! Prizes rolling in!

So - our raffle tickets will be here next week! Wow - we have a $10,000 guitar to give away... plus photography sessions, dance lessons, artwork, photographs, entertainment services, wild reptile stuffed prizes, restaurant coupons for free meals and more!

All for only $10/ ticket! It will be an amazing time sharing this fun fundraising opp with people...
Send them to www.HeadsUpLancaster.org/win.html

The final drawing will be NEW YEARS EVE in Downtown Lancaster at the official "Countdown Lancaster" event! If you can get co-workers to team up with us - or if you have something to donate for us to give away, give us a call!

Let the games begin!

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Heads Up's First All - Staff Meeting

Tonight we'll collect nearly twenty of our artist mentors in one room! We are about to kick off our new year of programs and we are very excited to get everyone on the same page. We are blessed with some new Artist Mentors joining us from out of town and many coming with a wealth of prior experience working with youth, running their own organizations and successful businesses.

It is sure to be a great 2009-2010!

Friday, July 24, 2009

PRS Electric Guitar Giveaway!

So, we were given a PRS (Paul Reed Smith) Custom Autographed Electric Guitar - valued over $8000! - to give away!

That means that you could win it!

Everyone who attended our Urban Arts Festival received a free ticket... we are only selling 1,000 tickets and then drawing one lucky winner! Proceeds to will towards expanding Heads Up programs into neighboring communities!

Tickets are $10 each. Businesses are welcome to purchase as many as they'd like... there is no limit per individual or business.

Soon you'll be able to purchase online - let us know how many you want ahead of time and we will reserve them!

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Urban Marketplace - Speechless & Amazing

We just wrapped up Urban Marketplace 2009 in partnership with First Presbyterian Church on Orange Street. I am not sure if there was a single ingredient that made it amazing and left us all speechless with gratitude.

Maybe it was the kids enthusiasm and creativity in the workshops - break dance, junkyard drumming, capoeira, t-shirt printing, rhythm stix, recycled fashion, sacred dance and caricatures...

Maybe it was the cardboard city-scape of downtown lancaster.

Maybe it was the original drama about the lives of a cafe owner, a gallery owner and a grocier in downtown lancaster as the week unfolded - causing genuine tears of emotion and joy.

Maybe it was the collaboration between a long standing church and a birthing arts organization.

Maybe it was the overwhelming reality of the love of the community, parents, families and behind the scenes volunteers that made it all happen.

Maybe it was encountering Jesus on the streets of Lancaster in 2009.

Whatever it was, it was impossible to describe with words and left us speechless with gratitude.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

"Our City" - by Justin Rule

My city has a pulse.

It lives and thrives on passion

Expressed through perspectives of people

Whose pride resides in the creativity

That permeates the previously parched pavement of potential.


My city has a soul.

It captivates the curious

On the corners where the coffeeshops

And cobblestone streets meet

The audible imprints of independents

Sewing musical flavors into the atmosphere

Saturating the canvas of human experience

With the colors of the Creator.


My city lives.

It inhales the spirit of things spoken to be

And exhales the fruition of the visions we see.

This is not my city.

This is our city.